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Railways, roads & transport, 1941

1,832 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 19 of 92

400 KILLED Japi Troop Train Mined (A.A.P. Service) HONGKONG, March 2

Maitland Mercury · Monday 3 March 1941 · page 1

The - Chinese Central. Newagency reports that 400 Japanese officers and men were killed on February 25 when a troop train struck Chinese land…

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Four Injured Motor Cycle Collides With Pedestrians NEWCASTLE

Maitland Mercury · Monday 3 March 1941 · page 7

Four people, including a man and his wife, were Injured at Holmesville On Saturday when a motorcycle collided with two pedestrians in the…

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Skull Fractured Motor Cyclist Killed LISMORE

Maitland Mercury · Monday 3 March 1941 · page 3

When a motor-cycle he was riding and a motor car driven by L. W. McLennan, Government agristologist, of Lismore, collided head on, Leonard…

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Upper Manilla Bridge

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 4 March 1941 · page 6

During the floods early in the year the low level traffic bridge over the Manilla River at Upper Manilla, on the main road between Tamworth…

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Road Dangers Running Off At Curves

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 4 March 1941 · page 2

Following reports of accidents to cars which have run off the road at curves the N.R.M.A. warns motorists that this class of accident is usually…

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Alternative Road System Case For Newcastle

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 4 March 1941 · page 5

Concerned with the difficult problem of evacuating the civilian population of Newcastle to less vuinerable points, should this be necessary in…

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Railway Chief's Inspection Tour Mr. Hartigan in North-west

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 4 March 1941 · page 6

The Commissioner for Railways, Mr. T. J. Hartigan, on his return to Sydney after an extensive tour of the North-western portion of the State…

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Echoes of Accident Motorist Fined on Two Charges

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 4 March 1941 · page 3

Before Mr. N. L. C. Sheridan, P.M., at Cessnock Police Court yesterday, Albert Edgar Crossley, 26, of Kemp-street, Cessnock, was charged…

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Unclaimed Property on the Railway. Auction Sales

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 4 March 1941 · page 4

It is amazing what some people leave in trains or fail to claim when consigned to them. For instance, the following…

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Motor Notes

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 4 March 1941 · page 6

It is not generally realised that maintenance section of Australia's automotive industry puts more money into circulation in business and…

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Bad Road Complaint To Shire Council

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 5 March 1941 · page 4

Suchanan public school drew Tarro Shire Council’s attention to-day to the deplorable condition of the road form the Mulbring turn-off on the…

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“Road Show” Character Pays Process Good Examples

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 5 March 1941 · page 3

Cinematically speaking — and with no sinister undercurrent of morality .—character pays. It pays, that is It you’re a character…

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Cessnock ’Drome No Money For Road CESSNOCK

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 5 March 1941 · page 5

Cessnock. Council was last night advised by the Minister for Works and Local Government that funds were not available for a grant of…

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Cost of £751 Road Works In Tarro Shire Council Approves

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 5 March 1941 · page 5

Three works, involving the construction and resurfacing of roads, and the construction of a deviation, at a total estimated…

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Hospital Ship for Australia Largest Motor Vessel in the World

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 5 March 1941 · page 3

The liner "Oranje," largest motorvessel in the world, has been offered to Australia by the Government of the Netherlands East Indies for…

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Parking on Main Roads Criticism Follows Man’s Death Cessnock Inquest Cessnock

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 6 March 1941 · page 7

The Coroner, Mr. A. Johns, expressed the opinion at Cessnock to-day that a regulation should be introduced to prohibit cars…

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Uniformity in Motor Transport Minister’s Desires SYDNEY

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 6 March 1941 · page 1

The Minister for Transport, Mr. Bruxner, in the Legislative Assembly today expressed the willingness of the New South Wales Government…

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No Headlight Motor Cyclist Killed Struck Motor Car Muswellbrook

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 6 March 1941 · page 1

The District Coroner, Mr. R. Gl[?]ndluning returned a verdict of accidental death at an inquest on Arthur William Berrigan, who died as a…

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Petrol Laws Difficulties Of Holiday Motorists SYDNEY

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 6 March 1941 · page 7

The secretary of the Royal Automobile Club, Mr Clyde Hodgins, said to-day that motorists whose annual holidays fell before March were more…

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One Headlight Motorist Fined At Newcastle NEWCASTLE

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 6 March 1941 · page 7

For not having two headlights on a motor car he was driving at Islington Ernest J. Walmsley, of Waratah was fined £1, with 8/ costs, in the…

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